Category Archives: Local News
Peoria Nurse Adopts Child She Cared For, Makes People Magazine
A Peoria nurse adopted a child she cared for and their story will be featured in People Magazine. Registered nurse Angela Farnan has spent 32 years with the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and ne...
Jun 27, 2019 Angela Farnan
Fulton County Deputy Slaying Suspect Charged With Murder
Bond is set at $5 million dollars for the Avon man accused of fatally shooting a Fulton County Sheriff's Deputy. Nathan Woodring, 42, appeared in Fulton County court Thursday. He is charged with first...
Jun 27, 2019 Illinois State Police
Ex-Trump aide Manafort pleads not guilty in New York
By Nathan Layne and Karen Freifeld (Reuters) - Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was convicted of numerous federal crimes last year, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to residential mortg...
Jun 27, 2019 REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Trump Tweets That Census Should Be Delayed
(AP) - President Donald Trump is suggesting the census be delayed indefinitely as he blasts a Supreme Court decision putting a hold on his administration's effort to add a citizenship question to the ...
Jun 27, 2019 AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
ISP Reports False GoFundMe Accounts For Fallen Deputy
ISP Reports False GoFundMe Accounts For Fallen Deputy Illinois State Police announced Thursday that false/fraudulent GoFundMe accounts have been created for fallen Fulton County Deputy Troy Chisum. Ch...
Jun 27, 2019
Services Announced For Fallen Fulton Co. Deputy
Visitation and funeral services will be held Sunday, June 30 and Monday, July 1 for 39-year-old Fulton County Deputy Troy Chisum, killed in the line of duty Tuesday afternoon. Deputy Chisum was shot a...
Jun 27, 2019 Illinois State Police
Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen Remains Transferred To Peoria
Rev. Daniel Jenky, Bishop of Peoria, announced Thursday the remains of Venerable Archbiship Fulton Sheen are home. After a three-year legal battle, the remains of Venerable Archbishop Sheen have trans...
Jun 27, 2019
Pritzker Increases Benefits For Families Of Fallen First Responders
CHICAGO - Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed legislation that doubles the death benefits for families of fallen law enforcement officers and firefighters, a day after Fulton County Sheriff's Deputy Troy Ch...
Jun 27, 2019
Trump Is In Japan To Meet With World Leaders
(AP) - President Donald Trump is in Japan to meet with world leaders amid a flurry of international crises, tense trade negotiations and a mounting global to-do list. Trump is attending the annual Gro...
Jun 27, 2019
Zhang's Family Doubted Body Would Be Found
(AP) - The family of a scholar from China killed by a former University of Illinois doctoral student says they're aware he offered to divulge where her remains were but weren't convinced the body woul...
Jun 27, 2019
